Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: ... I am shocked as a Northern man at your cover of Jan. 24. ... I am not sure of my figures, but anyone who has been south of the Mason & Dixon line can realize the overwhelming predominance of the black population and the necessity of having some form of law to which they will respond...
...world). In war-minded France, the cry was "C'est la guerre!" In Austria and elsewhere in Europe, kneeling peasants gibbered prayers. In Holland, merry celebrants hailed the vast curtains of red, orange, purple, green, blue and white light shifting and shimmering in the northern sky as a happy omen for the delivery of Princess Juliana (see p. 77). In London, which had not seen the aurora borealis since the dire night of a Zeppelin raid during the War, someone, thinking that Windsor Castle was on fire, called the Windsor Fire Department. European telephone exchanges generally were jammed...
...landlord, friend and fellow-fisherman of Frank-lin Roosevelt, has tinkered with trains- toy and real. On his Rhinebeck, N. Y. farm a foot-high locomotive chuffs over 600 yd. of miniature track, while its owner potently sits on the boards of such full-sized lines as Great Northern and Illinois Central. Five years ago Railroader Astor purchased five acres of Bermuda's 19 square miles of tax free soil,* began to build a lordly tropical house, "Ferry Reach," and meantime extended his land along the waterfront on St. George's Island. Main difficulty was that "Ferry Reach...
...surprised at. They said last night's display was the fourth in the year, and that they were expecting it all the time because of the current intensity of sunspots, Sunspot activity, at present at the height of an 11-year cycle, is said to cause the "Northern Lights" by ionization of the upper atmosphere...
...himself against accidents for 24 hours-maximum indemnity, $7,500-will drop a quarter in the Insurograph and pull a lever. A glass panel slides back; he writes his name and the name of his beneficiary. The time of day is then stamped on the policy (issued by Great Northern Life Insurance Co. of Milwaukee), it is violently ejected from the machine and the customer is thereupon properly insured against "loss of life, limb, limbs or time by accidental means...